Weather Journal: Feels Like Spring Again

Sharon Gunderson stretches following a swim in the Atlantic Ocean off of Brighton Beach on Monday.

Don’t put those t-shirts and shorts away quite yet: Tuesday will be the last day of “April in December,” with afternoon highs reaching their peak for the week in the mid- to upper-60s.

Records will be challenged again but likely not broken in the tri-state, after unseasonably warm weather re-wrote the record books from Texas to Delaware on Monday. The tri-state’s hotspot was Newark, N.J. which reached 64F. Joggers in Central Park enjoyed an afternoon high just a few degrees “cooler,” at 60.

Temperatures will be just a smidge warmer on Tuesday as stable high pressure moves offshore, suppressing cloud formation and funneling warm air from the deep south towards New York. This extreme influx of warmth comes in advance of a powerful cold frontal system that will quickly return winter-like weather to the region. Highs on Thursday, for example, will barely break out of the 40s.

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